Mexican businessman Jorge Pasquel was a force for integration in Baseball
Tagged: Baseball, bookPosted on: November 14th, 2007
Mexican businessman Jorge Pasquel was an innovator and an earlier version of George Steinbrenner. In the 1930s and ’40s, he handed out huge contracts and brought top Negro League and Major League players to play in the Mexican League.
The genesis formed a safe haven for Negro League players, created professional baseball’s first integrated league and made Pasquel one of the most important persons in the desegregation of Major League Baseball.
John Virtue, the author of the new book, “South of the Color Barrier: How Jorge Pasquel and the Mexican Baseball League Pushed Baseball Toward Racial Integration,” detailed Pasquel’s role on Saturday.”*
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